Love
Book XII, 161
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
Dorcion, who loves to sport with the young men, knows how to cast, like a tender boy, the swift dart of Cypris the Popular, flashing desire from her eye, and over her shoulders . . . with her boy’s hat, her chlamys showed her naked thigh.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Samos, Asclepiades of. “Book XII, 161.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/asclepiades/32/.
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